Aces High

A song about a British RAF pilot during the Battle Of Britain (1940) - the first battle fought entirely in the air.

Eddie effortlessly takes to the cockpit to fight the German Luftwaffe for the artwork, the idea for which Riggs borrowed "from a comic cover - Sgt. Rock I think - sometime in the 1960s."

A live version of Running Free was Maiden’s next single release on 13 September. However, the artwork is a photo of the band performing onstage, not a graphic image so it won't be appearing in our gruesome graphic gallery!